Essay name: Bhasa (critical and historical study)
Author: A. D. Pusalker
This book studies Bhasa, the author of thirteen plays ascribed found in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. These works largely adhere to the rules of traditional Indian theatrics known as Natya-Shastra.
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. There is a
rapidity in the progress of action
for which the frequent stage direction 啶ㄠた啶粪啶曕啶班ぎ啷嵿く 啶啶班さ啶苦ざ啷嵿く [ni峁ramya pravi艣ya ] '
is used.' As each play abounds in such scenes using
the stage direction, citation of instances seems
unnecessary.
3. There is a frequent recourse to Ak膩艣abh膩峁ta,
a kind of monologue in which one person only speaks
repeating the speeches of other persons not on the stage,
and answers them. This device is employed in the Dv
(pp. 6, 8), Avi (pp. 5, 8, 15, 23), Abh (p. 60), Car (pp. 8, 9),
Pratij帽膩 (p. 64), etc.
4. For describing battles, duels, battlefields,
sacrifices or some events the poet selects the narrator or
narrators from amongst the Brahmins, warriors or fairies.
Triads are employed in the Abh (fairies), Uru
(warriors), Pa帽c and Mv (Brahmins); in the two former,
for detailing fights on the battlefield; in the latter for
describing the sacrifice and the demon Ghatotkaca
谤别蝉辫别肠迟颈惫别濒测.虏
2 A warrior (Bhata) gives the news of fight and at times
describes it in the Pa帽c (Act II pp. 52-71), B膩l (Act V
pp. 57-59), and Abh (Act III pp. 36-38;V, p. 63).
5. The entry of a person of high rank such as a
king, a princess or a minister is announced with the iden-
tical words 啶夃じ啷嵿じ啶班す 啶夃じ啷嵿じ啶班す 啷� 啶呧く啷嵿く啶� [ussaraha ussaraha | ayy膩 ] ! 啶夃じ啷嵿じ啶班す 啷�. [ussaraha |. ] This is found in the
Svapna (pp. 6, 8), Pratij帽a (p. 63), Prat (p. 63, 66) and
Uru (p. 99).
6. The audience is acquainted with the intervening
events in the action of the play necessary for the
furtherance of the plot by a chamberlain, who generally
addresses the female door-keeper with the stereotyped words
啶� 啶囙す 啶啶� [ka iha bho岣� ] ! 啶曕ぞ啶炧啶氞え ( [k膩帽cana (] or 啶班い啷嵿え ) 啶む啶班ぃ 啶︵啶掂ぞ啶班ぎ啶多啶ㄠ啶 啶曕啶班啶む 啷� [ratna ) tora峁嘺 dv膩rama艣奴nya峁� kurute | ] and on the entry of
the door-keeper asks the latter to communicate the news
(of those intervening events) to the king or someone-
啶ㄠた啶掂啶︵啶い啶距 啶ㄠた啶掂啶︵啶い啶距.
[nivedyat膩峁� nivedyat膩峁�.
] Muat aquat
........etc.
In Act VI of the Svapna (p. 119), the K膩帽cuk墨ya
tells Udayana about the arrival of a Brahmin and the
nurse of Vasavadatt膩 from Mah膩sena, in the above
formula. Similarly in the Abh, Act III (p. 33), the news
1 Winternitz, CR, Dec. 1924, p. 340. 2 Abh, Act VI (pp. 68-74); Uru
(pp. 92-96); Pa帽c, Act I (pp. 4-15); Mv, (pp. 5鈥�6).
